On 15 May 2008, at 00:20, Jens Alfke wrote:
Because it would be orders of magnitude slower. Even the property list parser can read the iTunes library in a few seconds. Extracting all that information via AppleEvents would certainly take minutes. Taking that amount of time, it would be subject to race conditions, since the library might change while your script is iterating it.
Fair enough. Out of interest, is it the exchange of the AppleEvents that is slow, or iTunes handling of them (if you can tell). I remember long ago writing some plain AppleScripts for an early iTunes and it could get fairly simple info in 'a few seconds' for large(at the time) libraries (10,000 songs). Maybe if things have gotten slower since then someone should report a bug. (No, I don't still have the scripts handy)
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